AAA honors New Canaan Police for traffic safety achievements

Published 1:05 pm, Monday, January 21, 2013

AAA Southern New England-CT recently honored the New Canaan Police Department with a Gold Award for the departmentís outstanding traffic safety programs. In the third annual AAA Community Traffic Safety Award lunch at the Trumbull Marriott, Public Affairs Manager Fran Mayko, center, presented department members with a variety of awards including a Gold Award that recognized the departmentís various traffic safety programs. From left, Officer Rex Sprosta, with the Gold Award and Officer Dan Gulino, with an award recognizing the town for not having a pedestrian traffic fatality for one year. Both officers are AAAís certified Driving Improvement Program instructors. Second from right, Officer Marc DeFelice, the townís traffic enforcement officer, was nominated by Chief Edward Nadriczny, far right, as a AAA Traffic Safety Hero. He was recognized for his work with the townís Student Guardian School Bus violation program, its Citizens Police Academy and school bus safety.
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In the third annual AAA Community Traffic Safety Award lunch at the Trumbull Marriott, Public Affairs Manager Fran Mayko presented department members with a variety of awards including a Gold Award that recognized the department's various traffic safety programs including its Safe Routes to School Program; Operation Safe School Bus Stop; and annual bike rodeos.

AAA Southern New England has 46 offices in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Massachusetts and provides more than 3.5 million members with travel, insurance, finance, and auto-related services such as driver's license renewals, international driving permits and theme park and movie ticket sales.